Fort Worth Star Telegram Classifieds 1917 Public Notices
City bids sought for six Ford cars and six Ford truck attachments. Sealed bids due July 19 1917 to the San Antonio city clerk with right to reject any or all bids. Abbott details list nurses dormitory and asylum work under architect C V Scutter.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Board of Managers
Wesnwestern Insane Asylum
C. V. Scutter
Hsere
San Antonio
Tex
FORD
Fred Fries
Dalton
R. L. Dalton
Recruit Warship Replica Sits In Union Square New York
The 200 foot long ship Recruit, cost around 10000 dollars, stands moored in Union Square with real lifeboats guns and a crew of Navy men. Citizens are invited aboard or to walk around the vessel as Washington and Lincoln look on from nearby statues.
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New York
Union Square
Broadway
Fourteenth Street
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Nor
Lincoln
Tiffany & Co
Navy Yard
Misrah Truth Society Seeks Members and Blessings
Public notice invites joining the Misphah Truth Society of scientific thought offering health happiness and business success for 25 cents a month. Address Marmion 631 Soledad St San Antonio Texas for details and membership. Also items for sale include frying chickens Crockett location a Prest-O-Lite tank and head lamps with contact for pickup and return.
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Mispah
Truth Society of Scientific Thought
Rite Marmion
Soledad St. San Antonio
Tex
Washington Moves Uptown as Government Centers Shift
Washington undergoes a westward shift of federal offices from the White House area. Departments like Commerce Interior Labor Interstate Commerce Commission and Civil Service Commission relocate to new buildings west of the White House, reshaping the city’s political geography and tracing a historic reclamation of foggy bottom.
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Washington
D. C
White House
Capital
State, War and Navy
Department of Commerce
Nineteenth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Interstate Comerce Commission
Great Railroad Regulating Body
Eighteenth and
Department of the Interior
Herbert Hoover
Department of Labor and Civil Service Commission
Navy Department
Department of Justice
Postoffice Department
Department of Agriculture
Treasury Department
Capitol
Bureau
Interior, Labor
Interstate Commerce Commission
Navy Annex
Civil Service Commission
Fogly Bottom
Robert Morris
George Washington
Senator Stone Flaunts Rainbow Shirts in Senate Birthday Display
Missouri Senator Stone, famed for flair, surprised the Senate with a series of vibrantly colored shirts and matching socks. The flamboyant outfits followed a Kansas City birthday gift from his three grandchildren, who chose the garments as a personal tribute beyond decorum.
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Washington, D. C
William Joel Stone
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
White House
Capitol
J. Ham Lewis
Senate Wip
Congressional
Beau Srummel
Lewis
Misourian
Chicago
Senate
Stone
Marshall
John Sharp Williams
Senator Stone
Kansas City
Seasonal quip turns funeral talk into playful banter
In a light exchange, the speaker jokes about loving strawberries, whimsically proposing straw-burying as a punny mishap of the season. The other person replies with a contrasting frosting of ice cream humor, leaning into a chilly-spirited pun.
Paris life under thirty seven strict wartime rules
French mission leaders toured American cities and saw Paris under wartime controls. The article lists daily restrictions on bread, meat, sugar, pastry, coal, gas, transport, telegrams, letters, telephones, and public life, with passports and safe conducts required for all travel and varied censorship and curfews across three zones.
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Marshal Joffre
American
New York
Paris
Joffre
Broadway
French Republic
France
Judge Bailey Fulfills Wedding With Laughs Over Change
The Stanford Interior Journal recalls Judge James P. Bailey performing a wedding in which the groom asked for change. Bailey refused a set fee, letting the groom name a value for marriage to a good woman. The groom then supplied two quarters to settle up, as the judge increased his bank by a small amount.
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James P. Bailey
Stanford
Interior Journal
Bailey
Lincoln County
W. B. O'Bannon
Mir Vtton
Lincoln
Ecam
Man of God
Brother Middleton
Latin Americans Prolix on Loyalty amid German Submarine Fears
Latin American diplomats denounce reports of German bases off Central American coasts as harming U S-Latin America ties The Pan American Union head John Barrett touts Latin America as a growth field for American business and labor, while diplomats warn German propaganda threatens future progress and war-time constraints slow big projects.
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Washington, D
Germany
United States
John Barrett
Pan-American Union
Latin America
South
America
Uncle Sam
Latin América
Panama Canal
Bread in the Home Promotes Economy and Nutrition
US Department of Agriculture specialists say uniform home baking could reduce reliance on costlier foods. Nutritionwise bread forms barely differ from cereals or sides, and a moderate adult needs about three quarters of a pound of bread daily, the equivalent of one pound baked. In reality many families fall short, supplementing with more expensive items.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Germans Escape Capture by Serbs in Macedonia
Sergeant Wilhelm Brockstedt and three other German soldiers escaped captivity in Macedonia after being captured last November. They fled from a Serbian prison camp, swam a mile and a half across the river, hid four days in a cave, and were guided to German lines by a Macedonian peasant. Brockstedt, wounded thrice on the western front and Iron Cross recipient, is promoted to sergeant major with possible commission as a lieutenant.
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Berlin
Wilhelm Brockstedt
Macedonia
Cerna Ber
Brockstedt
Belgium
She Knew Her Country in Kindergarten Class
A Des Moines school scene shows a child answering with pride to a flag question. When asked the country’s name she responds with a confident chant that ends with the line This is the flag of my country followed by Tis of thee.
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Indianapolis
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